Jacqueline Butcher is Director of the Centro de Investigación y Estudios sobre Sociedad Civil, (CIESC) (Center for Civil Society Research and Studies) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrery, Mexico City Campus. Her areas of research focus on civil society, volunteering and solidarity. Her work has appeared in various academic journals such as Voluntas, and the Mexican Journal of Psychology and Human Development. Recent edited publications include Mexican solidarity: Citizen participation and volunteering (2010, Springer) and Generosidad en México (Generosity in Mexico) (2013, Porrúa). She is associate editor for Voluntas as well as a former President of the International Society for Third Sector Research, (ISTR). Christopher J. Einolf is an Associate Professor at DePaul University’s School of Public Service in Chicago, where he researches volunteering, charitable giving, and human rights. His work has appeared in Journal of Marriage and Family, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Social Indicators Research, and he recently published America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014). He wrote the report on informal volunteering for the 2011 United Nations State of the World’s Volunteering Report, which will be published as a chapter in the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on Volunteering and Nonprofit Associations